Application Migration & Modernization Specialist - AWS

We are looking for an experienced Application Migration & Modernization Specialist with strong hands-on AWS expertise. The role will assess enterprise applications, define migration and modernization strategies, design target-state AWS architectures, execute migrations, and transform legacy applications into secure, scalable and cloud-native solutions. The position requires practical capability across application architecture, AWS migration services, containers, databases, DevOps, APIs and application modernization.

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities -

Application Assessment & Migration • Assess legacy, on-premises and existing cloud applications for AWS migration readiness.

• Conduct application discovery, dependency mapping, technical assessment and migration complexity analysis.
• Define migration strategies using the 7Rs: Retain, Retire, Rehost, Relocate, Repurchase, Re-platform and Refactor.
• Develop migration waves, sequencing, implementation plans, cutover plans, rollback procedures and migration runbooks.
• Identify technical risks, application dependencies, downtime requirements and remediation actions.
• Execute and support end-to-end production application migrations to AWS, including post-migration validation, optimization and stabilization.

Application Modernisation

• Modernise monolithic and legacy applications into modular, microservices or cloud-native architectures.
• Refactor and re-platform applications for AWS; modernise runtimes, frameworks, middleware and integration patterns.
• Design containerised solutions using Docker, Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
• Implement serverless patterns using AWS Lambda where technically appropriate.
• Modernise integrations using REST APIs, API Gateway, messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Improve scalability, resilience, maintainability, security, observability and application performance.

AWS Architecture & Engineering

• Design secure, highly available, resilient and scalable AWS application architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, Route 53 and CloudWatch.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, Migration Hub and AWS Application Migration Service.
• Design backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions on AWS.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across security, reliability, performance, operational excellence and cost optimisation.

Database & Data Migration

• Assess application database dependencies and define database migration approaches.

• Support migrations involving Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2 and other enterprise database platforms.

• Modernise workloads toward Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora and other appropriate AWS managed database services.

• Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and related migration tooling where applicable. • Perform migration validation, reconciliation, performance testing and production readiness checks.

Preferred candidate profile